I can remember when he was rumored to be gay, and rumored to be coming out of the closet. Then his agent said, "Sorry, just kidding. I think you all got confused because JTT was in a movie where he played the role of a gay teen who came out of the closet. He's not really gay."

So now he's 37 years old and never married or had a girlfriend. And he's still living off those Home Improvement residuals.

by Anonymous

reply 5

09/08/2018

He just seems so uninterested in anything - he'll be single forever.

by Anonymous

reply 6

09/08/2018

The Ballad of Jonathan Taylor Thomas. At the age of 37...

by Anonymous

reply 7

09/08/2018

OP, at least you are young enough to know who he is.

by Anonymous

reply 8

09/08/2018

R2’s picture is actually old. Who knows what he looks like today.

by Anonymous

reply 9

09/08/2018

QWERTY is how old now?!

by Anonymous

reply 10

09/08/2018

I still find him adorable.

by Anonymous

reply 11

09/08/2018

What does he do now? Does he still do voice acting? Any acting? Anything at all? He has a college degree from a prestigious college,no?

by Anonymous

reply 12

09/08/2018

Yeah the pic at R2 is five years old.

by Anonymous

reply 13

09/08/2018

Yeah, every site uses similar pictures as "new" pictures. I'm sure he looks mostly the same, but it would be nice to see something from this year. Wish he had social media.

by Anonymous

reply 14

09/08/2018

What is that standing next to him?

by Anonymous

reply 15

09/08/2018

He was huuuge in the 90’s. Now the only things I think when I see his name are “short” and “outspoken anti-choice a**hole.”

by Anonymous

reply 16

09/08/2018

The guy has been out of the limelight for decades and people still think they know that he's never had a girlfriend. Who even knows if that's true?

by Anonymous

reply 17

09/08/2018

[quote]What does he do now? Does he still do voice acting? Any acting? Anything at all?

According to IMDb, he appeared on "Last Man Standing" as late as 2015.

by Anonymous

reply 18

09/08/2018

R15 I think that's zachery ty bryan his older brother costar on home improvement. He was a blonde cutie before. Now he ate his residuals

by Anonymous

reply 19

09/08/2018

He’s a Right winger.

by Anonymous

reply 20

09/08/2018

His voice and mannerisms remind me a lot of Christian Slater.

[quote] He’s a Right winger.

Where did you hear this?

by Anonymous

reply 21

09/09/2018

He's pro life

[quote] The actor voiced a fetus who was going to be aborted during an anti-abortion ad. He hasn’t publicly expanded on his views as of late.

by Anonymous

reply 22

09/09/2018

He was twinktastatic for a good run.

Did DL have threads on him in the 90s?

by Anonymous

reply 23

09/09/2018

He also played a gay character in the TV movie Common Ground. I remember JTT fans such were excited to see him in a speedo (he also played a swimmer). Not sure if his character in Speedway Junky was gay or not. It's been years since I've seen it. After that, he had a guest or recurring role on Smallville and then nothing else after that for many years. I did catch his guest appearance on Last Man Standing by accident.

Rumors were he came out and sparks flew from Tim what's his name - the dad on the show - oh well, whatever - if he's a right-winger, then fuck him and the horse he rode in on as they say.

by Anonymous

reply 27

09/09/2018

I always wanted to see JTT nude.

by Anonymous

reply 28

09/09/2018

I thought he stayed in the closet at the behest of Disney. Doesn't look good for the Brand if it turns out little Simba grows up and comes back to Pride Rock, well, proud...

by Anonymous

reply 29

09/09/2018

I wonder when he lost his anal cherry.

by Anonymous

reply 30

09/09/2018

Vintage twink bussy!

by Anonymous

reply 31

09/09/2018

by Anonymous

reply 32

09/09/2018

[QUOTE]I wonder when he lost his anal cherry.

I think I read on Nifty.org that Zachary Ty Bryan took it around Season 4 of Home Improvement during a party at Tim Allen’s house. He couldn’t resist Jonathan any longer and cornered him in an upstairs bathroom. Zachary came up behind Jonathan and wrapped his muscular arms around him, breathing in the scent of Jonathan’s freshly shampooed hair before kissing down the side of his neck. And you can imagine where it went from there.

How the author of the article knew all these details, I have no idea.

by Anonymous

reply 33

09/09/2018

I bet he is a great lil bossy bottom....

by Anonymous

reply 34

09/09/2018

by Anonymous

reply 35

09/09/2018

^^ When the hell did he look like that?

by Anonymous

reply 36

09/09/2018

It's from the 2000 Showtime movie "Common Ground".

by Anonymous

reply 37

09/09/2018

37? He's still young.

by Anonymous

reply 38

09/09/2018

2016.

by Anonymous

reply 39

09/09/2018

R33 LOL.

Anyway, he's still one of the best looking people in my early (90s-00s) exposure to media. That pic of 5 years ago? Still looks good. Him as a teen was a part of me realizing I liked other boys, looking back.

by Anonymous

reply 40

09/09/2018

Same here. He's how I knew I was gay.

by Anonymous

reply 41

09/09/2018

What’s this Common Ground movie about? And by “about,” I mean are there any sex scenes involving JTT and another guy?

by Anonymous

reply 42

09/09/2018

[quote]Him as a teen was a part of me realizing I liked other boys, looking back.

Me too. I wonder if he knows that he turned so many adolescents gay lol. I still love pocket gays until this day. JTT was also very laid back and it made him even more appealing

by Anonymous

reply 43

09/09/2018

All of the “straight” characters he played were in the closet, or at least seemed to be with JTT playing them.

by Anonymous

reply 44

09/09/2018

R43 Actually... come to think of it, I think some of that public attitude of his rubbed off on me. I was too lanky, socially anxious, and nerdy to pull it off, but it stayed in my values as I matured. Its very easy for me to just shrug and smile at things now, and it seems (and is proven sometimes) to attract some other people to me. Huh, this is all enlightening me.

by Anonymous

reply 45

09/09/2018

There was a rumor that JTT was supposed to play Jason Bigg's character in American Pie.

by Anonymous

reply 46

09/09/2018

R46 Somehow I can't see him fucking an apple pie.

by Anonymous

reply 47

09/09/2018

I remember being stunned when I found out Jason Bigg's isn't actually Jewish in real life. Ironically JTT is, his last name is really Weiss.

by Anonymous

reply 48

09/09/2018

Yeah, Biggs not being Jewish is rather shocking. Didn't know JTT was though. Thanks!

by Anonymous

reply 49

09/09/2018

At the height of his cuteness.

by Anonymous

reply 50

09/09/2018

Devon Sawa was twinkalicous in Final Destination.

He had a really tiny window. He became disgusting a year later.

by Anonymous

reply 51

09/09/2018

R51 I saw him in person several times and he's looking quite rough these days. He was also cute in Idle Hands.

by Anonymous

reply 52

09/09/2018

JTT identifies as Christian. It is a German name and I know many Weisses that are not Jewish. Or he had a Jewish ancestor where he got his name from and that was it. I remember reading articles about him going To church or supported Christian organizations or something like that. Anyway I logged on to say that perhaps the reason he doesn’t do anything anymore is that the rampant abuse that the child stars went through in the 80s and 90s has soured him up industry. I don’t know if he ever was photograph by Bob Villard but I remember some pretty sketchy pictures of him when he was a teen magazines that would never be published today. While I think some actors do you fall into a drug spiral I think a lot of them just leave and don’t go back to Hollywood. CB Barnes Who is in a lot of stuff in the 80s and 90s reply directly to a Twitter post to Corey Feldman saying that while he is not going to talk about it he was abused to as they all were and they were just commodities and not people. I remember seeing his stuff and really thinking he was a good actor. It is super sad and depressing to think what they went through

by Anonymous

reply 53

09/09/2018

He's of the Pennsylvania Dutch (German) Weisses apparently

by Anonymous

reply 54

09/09/2018

R53 CB Barnes works as a voice actor now. He's been pretty successful.

by Anonymous

reply 55

09/09/2018

[quote] I remember some pretty sketchy pictures of him when he was a teen magazines that would never be published today.

Yeah, I stumbled upon one of them while looking for pictures to post here. There's one of him shirtless in overalls when he was a kid. Pretty disturbing in retrospect.

by Anonymous

reply 56

09/09/2018

Speaking of disturbing, what about the ones taken of Noah Hathaway in the 80s?

by Anonymous

reply 57

09/09/2018

Devon Sawa got hot again by the time he was on Nikita.

by Anonymous

reply 58

09/09/2018

R53 what sketchy pics of JTT were there? I remember he was all over the teen mags in the 90's and the pics were usually with dogs, cats, various other animals, sports equipment, cars, etc. but nothing weird like Brad Renfro for example- who was often topless lying around somewhere.

Or the Noah Hathaway ones like r57 mentioned. Those were not cool.

by Anonymous

reply 59

09/09/2018

To clarify- I'm not looking for sketchy pics, but I can't remember seeing any of this kid (and I was all about teen mags in the 90's- my babysitter would bring them over and I'd look at them all. Loved Joey and Matthew Lawrence the most). His mom was a known stage-mom and a bit overprotective and I can't imagine she'd let him do creepy photoshoots.

by Anonymous

reply 60

09/09/2018

I did a lot of creepy photoshoots in the 90s!

by Anonymous

reply 61

09/09/2018

R60, you don’t remember when JTT presented hole in Tiger Beat? Those were the days.

by Anonymous

reply 62

09/09/2018

Those Lawrence brothers were good eye candy. Matthew's body was looking good in Hot Chick.

by Anonymous

reply 63

09/09/2018

Leif Garrett was also Jewish, but very much on the DL about that

by Anonymous

reply 64

09/09/2018

A lot of those photos were taken by a pedophile who was selling them on eBay before he was arrested. He shot everyone including a young Evan Peters in underwear.

by Anonymous

reply 65

09/09/2018

Noah Hathaway Was photographed by Bob Villard. I wondered what happened to him but apparently He sustained a pretty serious injuries of the movie that eventually led to a drug addiction or something like that. He is covered in tattoos and looks nothing like he did when he was younger or what you would’ve thought he would’ve grown into. His claim to fame now is pulling out of 80s shows. I wouldn’t be surprised if he ODs. The pictures that Bob took of him should’ve gotten him arrested. He did it in Germany or at the time the age of consent is 14. They are definitely pictures that should’ve Got him on some police radar

by Anonymous

reply 66

09/09/2018

Nasty

by Anonymous

reply 67

09/09/2018

You know who looks completely different now, r66? Barrett Oliver, Noah's costar in Neverending story. Last pic I saw he was way fat with dreads.

by Anonymous

reply 68

09/09/2018

Was DL ever obsessed with him like Colton or Shawn Mendes?

I remember when I first came here about 10 years ago, interest in him was dying down. Im a little surprised that more of his personal life has not been revealed here. He is clearly a favorite of DL.

by Anonymous

reply 69

09/09/2018

Delightful hairless hole.

by Anonymous

reply 70

09/09/2018

Recall seeing some recent mug shot photos of Leif Garrett that were totally frightening. He had a hole in his forehead

by Anonymous

reply 71

09/09/2018

Wow when he was a kid I thought he was gonna grow up to be soooooo hot!

He's rich enough he doesn't need to work ever again? He hasn't down much in the past two decades.

by Anonymous

reply 75

09/09/2018

I am Agent Dale's dong that Harry got to suck off and then get penetrated by!

by Anonymous

reply 76

09/09/2018

R72 same. I also thought JTT was going to go far as an actor. Or be very successful outside the industry because he was very smart and always talking about getting a good education to have something to 'fall back on'.

But from what I recall he went to Harvard around 2000, did a semester at st. Andrews in Scotland, but didn't graduate Harvard and ended up transferring to Columbia and graduating there in like 2009. Maybe it was for a grad degree, but I don't think so. I guess he really liked school and took a long ass time to get his BA.

I guess you can do that when you're rich and don't have to work.

by Anonymous

reply 77

09/09/2018

JTT's involved... with some... company or something. He's on a board somewhere. Sorry for being vague, but I can't remember it. It was mentioned on another JTT thread. I think it's still film related though.

by Anonymous

reply 78

09/09/2018

[quote]Place of Birth: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S.

OMG! He's the second coming!

by Anonymous

reply 79

09/09/2018

If I remember correctly Jonathan Brandis, although several years older, was popular at the same time. I definitely believe these two were abused. Brandis Was the only child and two wasps from Connecticut. They probably cannot even comprehend it will be into think about what was really going on. JTT Was being photographed and in those teen magazines and who knows what else he was around. I don’t think Tim Allen abused it were anything but the more I’m reading about it it seems to be more like crew members or tutors doing this stuff.

by Anonymous

reply 80

09/09/2018

The only child From two Wasps in Connecticut. It makes no sense that he hung himself while he out with friends. Who knows with that poor kid was dealing with . I definitely believe once they get older and those pedos discard them They need an amazing support system and a pile of money where they don’t really need to workto get out from that

by Anonymous

reply 81

09/09/2018

Someone mentioned Joey Lawrence And his brothers. Joey file for bankruptcy and one of his brothers looked like he was out of faces of Meth although that was a couple of years ago. Ricky Schroeder Married a Mormon while he was really young at all though they got divorced recently he seems to be one of the few 80s teen stars that her ok. Jodie Foster of course wins that overall. FFS I hope this is wrong read but I read Wesley from Mr Belvedere was abused by producers.

by Anonymous

reply 82

09/09/2018

I think JTT was too short to do much as an actor. It was ok when he was a teenager but not when he got older.

by Anonymous

reply 83

09/09/2018

I liked his scratchy-sounding voice. I think he voiced young Simba on the Lion king movie lol

by Anonymous

reply 84

09/09/2018

Yes, r23, and he was widely believed to be posting here using the pseudonym qwerty. Many posters took up pseudonyms and even authenticated in that era.

by Anonymous

reply 85

09/09/2018

R85 Were they speculating on his sexuality back then?

by Anonymous

reply 86

09/09/2018

Gay anti-choicers are strange. He voiced a “fetus that was about to be aborted” for a commercial? Creepy shit. Must be his Amish family values. Although, the Amish treat gays terribly so you’d think he’d have rejected all those conservative Christian values and become a “Hollywood liberal.” ...unless he was sexually abused or exposed to abuse while working in LA.

Who the hell knows.

by Anonymous

reply 87

09/09/2018

Any recent photos?--and by recent I don't mean from the early 00s

by Anonymous

reply 88

09/10/2018

He was always very mature for his age. Like an adult in a child's body.

by Anonymous

reply 89

09/10/2018

Jonathan Taylor Turns 3̶7̶ 3'7" today

by Anonymous

reply 90

09/10/2018

What movie was he in with Mel Gibson and John Travota?

by Anonymous

reply 91

09/10/2018

[quote]He's rich enough he doesn't need to work ever again? He hasn't down much in the past two decades.

No, he works at the Trader Joe’s in WeHo now.

by Anonymous

reply 92

09/10/2018

R92 How dare you work shame him!

by Anonymous

reply 93

09/10/2018

R86, there was speculation, yes. The poster qwerty never claimed to be JTT but did strike many as legitimate.

Maybe someone with a better memory of this than me can contribute more to the qwerty/JTT recollections.

by Anonymous

reply 94

09/10/2018

Why should gay males all be pro-choice? I personally think there should be more abortions, but I don't condemn others who opposing views. I know, women's reproductive rights blah, blah, blah, but I don't really care about that to be honest. That particular issue doesn't affect my life.

by Anonymous

reply 95

09/10/2018

At least he had a cameo in an SNL sketch.

by Anonymous

reply 96

09/10/2018

Let's be JTT, "I want out of my contract so I can go to college"

Hee hee hee

by Anonymous

reply 97

09/10/2018

I thought Brandis was Jewish?

by Anonymous

reply 98

09/10/2018

Qwerty gave a few clues to his identity, like a blind item, and they narrowed down the possibilities to a couple of young (at the time) actors. He never confirmed it either way.

As for him being anti-choice, he was very young when he made that PSA and was possibly put up to it by a parent. You can't extrapolate his political beliefs from something he did as a child that may not have been his idea.

by Anonymous

reply 99

09/10/2018

Twinks can't stay young forever

by Anonymous

reply 100

09/10/2018

He grew up to look like Bill Maher

by Anonymous

reply 101

09/10/2018

An older DataLounge JTT thread featured a photo wherein he looked like the creepier sister of Fran Lebowitz. He was on a boat.

by Anonymous

reply 102

09/10/2018

Awww...lil pocket gay. I like him.

by Anonymous

reply 103

09/10/2018

I'm guessing he's still a virgin.

by Anonymous

reply 104

09/10/2018

If he's the one Repugtard Tim Allen hated, I love Jonathan Taylor Thomas.

by Anonymous

reply 105

09/10/2018

Tim Allen doesn't hate JTT, he thinks of him like a son.

Jonathan keeps guest-starring on 'Last Man Standing' so we assume the loving feeling is mutual.

by Anonymous

reply 106

09/10/2018

Greg and Mary , his parents, lived in Darien Connecticut which didn’t even sell to Jewish people. Jonathan Brandis is as Jewish as the pope.

by Anonymous

reply 107

09/10/2018

Corey Haim Never had a chance. I hate Corey Feldman but he’s probably not wrong and that his parents turned a blind eye. I read something where Robert Downey Junior of all people and Sarah Jessica Parker took him in and this was well before he got clean. He was like 14 years old. That says it all right there about Hollywood in the 80s. Can’t imagine ideas were that much better. For every Mark Paul Gosselaar who comes out unscathed there are countless Noah Hathaways and Jonathan Brandises our there.

by Anonymous

reply 108

09/10/2018

I've always had a soft spot for JTT. He seems a well-spoken sweet guy who didn't try to court fame like a creep.

by Anonymous

reply 109

09/10/2018

I thought Brandis hanged himself because he wasn't getting acting roles as an adult and it made him depressed. Was there talk of him being abused?

Corey Haim was a sad case. I feel bad for him, he was left to the sharks.

by Anonymous

reply 110

09/10/2018

Thanks for that info, r66. Always wondered how those pictures ever got published. There are some pictures of Danny Ponce from The Hogan Family that must have been taken by the same guy. Villard was finally busted for molesting a kid in the early 2000s.

by Anonymous

reply 111

09/11/2018

The youngest boy on that show who played Mark has to be gay, I don't care how many times he's been married.

by Anonymous

reply 112

09/11/2018

R112, I always thought so too. He, Jeremy Licht, was the good looking one. He started losing his hairline while he was still a teenager, which was weird.

by Anonymous

reply 113

09/11/2018

qwerty should have a second-coming soon, so us DL-Millennials can get to know him in all his bitchy glory.

by Anonymous

reply 114

09/11/2018

Strange to think Tim Allen wasn't even 30 years old when Jon was born. The Gen-gap seems bigger than that.

It's also strange to realise that the family on 'Home Improvement' had the family name Taylor, matching Jonathan...

by Anonymous

reply 115

09/12/2018

I thought they did a good job casting Jonathan. He looked a bit like Tim Allen. At least while he was of the show, not so much now.

by Anonymous

reply 116

09/12/2018

You can see a vague similarity in looks.

I remember in some HI episodes the jokes would make a point of emphasising how, in spite of their divergent personal politics, their personalities lined up too (like saying exactly the same phrases at different times and so on). If you go way too deep with the trivia you'll also notice that Tim & Randy often dressed in matching colors in later seasons.

by Anonymous

reply 117

09/12/2018

Shawn Pyfrom on 'Desperate Housewives' gave major JTT vibes. They have the same voice and the same smirk.

by Anonymous

reply 118

09/17/2018

And they're both closeted gays

by Anonymous

reply 119

09/17/2018

mmm good comparison r118.

by Anonymous

reply 120

09/17/2018

It's so odd that Randy Taylor had a dozen girlfriends on 'Home Improvement' and never kissed one of them.

Jonathan has wonderful chemistry with Tim. It's always so deliciously meta when they have solo scenes together.

by Anonymous

reply 121

09/21/2018

I want his meat in both of my horny holes!

by Anonymous

reply 122

09/21/2018

Yeah, no one can still beat the creepy pictures taken of Danny Ponce

by Anonymous

reply 123

09/21/2018

I used to think that style of short shorts was normal in the 70's and early 80's. I was born in the 80s but too young to have any vivid memories of what people actually wore.

by Anonymous

reply 124

09/21/2018

How the hell has this Shawn Pyfrom escaped my radar all these years? He’s my dream bottom.

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